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			<a href="http://identengine.com/"><h1><span>Ident Engine</span></h1></a>
			<h2 id="strapline"><span>A JavaScript library that retrieves and aggregates profiles from across the web</span> </h2>
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		<h1>Documentation</h1>
		
				<h2>How too's</h2>
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								<a href="identities.htm">Identities</a>
								<p>How to search across people&#39;s identities and build lists of their online accounts</p>
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								<a href="profiles.htm">Profiles</a>
								<p>How to search for and retrieve an individuals profiles from across the web.</p>
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								<a href="combined-profile.htm">Combined Profile</a>	
								<p>How to access a combined profile built from the collection of profiles</p>
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								<a href="content.htm">User Generated Content</a>					
								<p>How to retrieve user generated content from public APIs and feeds</p>
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				<h2>Collections</h2>
				
				<p class="restricted-width">There are a number of data structures used by Identi Engine collections: 
		<a href="identities-structure.htm">Identity</a>, 
<a href="profile-structure.htm">Profile</a>, 
<a href="resume-structure.htm">Resume</a>, 
<a href="entry-structure.htm">Entry</a>, 
<a href="event-structure.htm">Event</a>, <a href="xfn-structure.htm">XFN</a> and 
<a href="tag-structure.htm">Tag</a>.
		This documentation also contains help on how to
		<a href="data-structure.htm">navigate these structures</a> and common meta&nbsp; properties
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			<li><a href="../debug/debug-identites.htm">Debug Identities</a> </li>
			<li><a href="../debug/debug-icons.htm">Debug Icons</a> </li>
			<li><a href="../debug/debug-mappings.htm">Debug Mappings</a></li>
			<li><a href="../debug/debug-api-discovery.htm">Debug API Discovery</a></li>
			<li><a href="../debug/debug-content.htm">Debug Content</a></li>
			<li><a href="../debug/debug-json-editor.htm">JSON Mapping Editor</a></li>
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